Wednesday, June 5, 2013

durianquotes

"Romantic disasters are like natural ones. Even with warnings it is impossible to imagine what it..."

"Romantic disasters are like natural ones. Even with warnings it is impossible to imagine what it will feel like when they strike, and you are left standing in the wreckage, wondering what in the world has happened."

- Daniel Handler

"In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. I loved it because it was all I had. I..."

"In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. I loved it because it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my pain."

- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday."

"I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday."

- Lemony Snicket

"I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so— I don't know— lonely. The kind of..."

"I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so— I don't know— lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I'm headed."

- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than..."

"And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."

- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I..."

"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness."

- Sylvia Plath

"I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if..."

"I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message."

- Osho

"If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be."

"If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be."

- Marcus Sedgwick

"Because when something happens, he's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love."

"Because when something happens, he's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love."

- David Levithan

"I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing..."

"I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music."

- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."

"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."

- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"But in my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will..."

"But in my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrite9."

- Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

"We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now,..."

"We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we'll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot."

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on."

"I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on."

- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear...."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken.'"

- C.S. Lewis 

"It's about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments..."

"It's about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don't say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway."

- Sofia Coppola (on Lost in Translation)

"Maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all..."

"Maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don't attract our attention and we just let them go by. It's like fireworks in the daytime. You might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up at the sky you can't see a thing. But if we're really hoping something may come true it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. Then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means. And seeing it before us we're surprised and wonder at how strange things like this can happen. Even though there's nothing strange about it."

- Haruki Murakami

"Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back."

"Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back."

- Warsan Shire

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